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— Greater Ottawa, by the numbers

Why this market rewards bilingual search.

A snapshot of the buyers our pages put you in front of. Every figure links to its primary source.

1.5M
people in the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA, Canada's fourth-largest metro and the officially bilingual seat of federal government. Real demand behind English and French searches across the region.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census
37%
of Ottawa-Gatineau CMA residents report knowledge of both English and French. The most bilingual major metro in Canada, with French and English queries running in parallel.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census
~140K
federal public servants work in the National Capital Region, anchoring a deep pool of professional-services and B2B buyers that sit adjacent to government work.
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
80K+
tech workers across the Ottawa tech cluster, anchored by Kanata North, Canada's largest tech park by employment. A dense B2B and SaaS buyer pool sitting on top of search.
Invest Ottawa
— Ottawa SEO Services

Two compounding moves. One Ottawa search engine.

Rankings on Google in English and French. A spot inside Google Maps results and AI answers. The work that pays back every month a capital-region customer searches for what you do.

01 / 02

Ottawa SEO + AI search.

Rank on page one of Google for the searches your Ottawa customers actually type. Get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews when a buyer asks for a recommendation. We fix what is broken on your site, build the bilingual depth that compounds, and feed the sources AI engines pull from.

Technical SEO AI Search / GEO Bilingual EN / FR Capital-region Authority Bilingual Technical Setup
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Prompt
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the66th.com google.com/maps clutch.co
02 / 02

Top of Google Maps.

When an Ottawa local types `dentist near byward` or asks ChatGPT for a Kanata realtor, the answer comes from the three-pin Google Maps box. We earn your business that spot with a Google Business Profile that gets clicks, citations across Ottawa and Canada-wide directories, and a review system that closes it.

Google Business Profile Ottawa Citations Reviews System Google Maps Rankings Local Schema
1
Your Business
★★★★★·Open · ByWard
● TOP
2
Competitor A
★★★★☆·Westboro
3
Competitor B
★★★★☆·The Glebe
— Why Ottawa operators hire us

Three reasons SEO is the smartest line item on your marketing budget.

More visibility across the capital region in both languages. More inbound from buyers already searching. Less paid spend over time.

— 01

An asset you own.

Rankings compound. Once you sit at the top of the Ottawa searches your customers run, in English and in French, the asset works while you run the business.

— 02

Predictable inbound.

Word-of-mouth is uneven. Search puts a steady line of capital-region buyers in front of you every week, including the federal-services-adjacent and Kanata tech buyer pools other channels miss.

— 03

Stop renting attention.

Paid search resets every month. Earned bilingual rankings keep delivering long after the work is done. No commissions. No per-click meter.

— By The Numbers

What the work has done across our Canadian client base.

Traffic pulled from Google Search Console and Ahrefs. Revenue reported directly by the businesses.

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Combined years of experience in SEO, GEO & growth
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Google & Clutch verified rating across reviews
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Average organic traffic growth across client engagements
— Greater Ottawa · Search Atlas

Every neighborhood runs a different search, in two languages.

From ByWard Market restaurants to the federal-services corridors of Centretown, intent shifts by neighborhood and by language. Tourists land in ByWard. Families spread through Westboro, The Glebe and Orleans. Tech buyers cluster in Kanata. We map the bilingual search shape of Greater Ottawa, then build the pages that put your business in front of the buyers in the neighborhoods that pay you.

  1. ByWard Market→byward market restaurants
  2. Westboro→westboro cafe
  3. The Glebe→glebe boutique
  4. Centretown→centretown dentist
  5. Kanata→kanata realtor
  6. Orleans→orleans plombier
  7. Hintonburg→hintonburg coffee
  8. Your Business·cited across the Capital region
— Case Studies

What compounding looks like for a Canadian operator.

Real clients across Canada. Real numbers. Pulled directly from their dashboards.

Aetherhaus · Wellness · Vancouver 3 MONTHS

686% more organic traffic. From page 6 to #1 for "cold plunge Vancouver", with a 50% revenue lift in two weeks.

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Read case study
Legacy Enclosures · Home services6 MONTHS

5x organic traffic in under 6 months.

From flat traffic to top-3 rankings for high-value home-service searches, with consistent month-over-month growth.

Read case study
WashTech · Local services · Vancouver5 MONTHS

500% revenue lift in five months.

Zero organic visibility to top 3 for "window cleaning Vancouver" and 18,200 impressions in a single quarter.

Read case study
— Reviews

Trusted by Canadian operators.

Google-verified reviews from the businesses we work with.

★★★★★
"Working with The 66th has been a game-changer. They executed as planned and increased our revenue by 25% in three months."
Andrew Crookshank
Andrew Crookshank
Co-founder of Bilo Media Ad Agency
★★★★★
"Since working with The 66th team, the difference has been night and day. They've helped me achieve actual results."
Anastasiia Romaniv
Anastasiia Romaniv
Founder of Eightstation.com
★★★★★
"Liam and his team did my SEO and generative engine optimization. They were incredible. You will not be disappointed."
Clare Howard
Clare Howard
Founder of Maison Rouge
★★★★★
"Working with this team has been a game-changer for us as a business. What really impressed us is how they've supported 044BUREAU in every aspect."
044 Bureau
044 Bureau
Founders of 044bureau.com
★★★★★
"Within the first month, they increased our clients' organic traffic by 32%. Our clients' conversion rates improved by 18% through their technical optimizations."
Victor Klinkera
Victor Klinkera
CEO and Founder of RCM
★★★★★
"Liam helped grow our online presence tenfold and increased our sales by over 140% in less than six months. I strongly recommend The 66th!"
Shawn Lytton
Shawn Lytton
President of Maple Terroir
— Process

How we get an Ottawa business found across English and French search.

01
03
STEP 01

Map every capital-region search, in both languages.

We pull the actual Ottawa searches your customers run, in English and in French. Hundreds of neighbourhood-specific queries across the city, from `byward market restaurants` to `kanata realtor`. You see exactly where you rank, where the gaps are, and how ChatGPT and Perplexity currently describe your business.

the66th / audit.01
Google Rankings
+47%
AI Visibility
18%
STEP 02

Build the pages a bilingual buyer finds.

We build a page for every shape of Ottawa buyer search, in the language the buyer uses: service pages for the big English and French keywords, neighborhood pages for ByWard, Westboro, The Glebe, Kanata and Orleans intent, comparison and FAQ content for places where AI tools look for answers. We fix every technical issue on your site, set up bilingual routing and local business signals, and feed the citation sources Google Maps and AI engines actually read on both sides of the language line. Rankings stop being luck.

Technical audit resolved● COMPLETE
Bilingual language setup● COMPLETE
Bilingual pages built● COMPLETE
AI citation sources seeded○ IN PROGRESS
French link-building campaign○ QUEUED
STEP 03

Compound across the Capital region.

Rankings climb in both languages. Google Maps surfaces you in the three-pin pack for the searches that pay. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews start naming your business when an Ottawa buyer asks for a recommendation, whether they ask in English or in French. Every month a strategist sends a written update, in plain English, on what moved and what is next.

ORGANIC TRAFFIC · 6 MOS +675%
— AI Visibility

When an Ottawa buyer asks AI, your business answers.

AI search does not crawl like Google. It selects from what it trusts, and the trusted source list looks different in English and in French. We feed your brand into the sources ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot pull from on both sides of the line, so when a capital-region buyer asks for a recommendation, your name lands.

ChatGPT
Claude
Perplexity
Gemini
Google AI
Copilot
Your Ottawa Business Cited 98× last 30d
— Who we work with in Greater Ottawa

Ottawa sub-markets we know cold.

The capital runs on hospitality, professional services, bilingual retail, a deep Kanata tech cluster and federal-services-adjacent B2B. Pages built for any of these.

01
ByWard Market hospitality
Restaurants, bars, tour operators and boutique hotels in the busiest tourist core in the capital. Show up when a visitor or local types `byward market restaurants` or `best brunch ottawa`, in either language.
02
Westboro & Hintonburg retail and services
Cafes, boutiques, fitness studios, salons and neighborhood services along Wellington West. Google Maps first, walk-ins right after. We rank you for the searches buyers run a block from your door.
03
The Glebe & Centretown professional services
Dentists, lawyers, accountants, financial advisors, clinics and consulting firms. Capital-region buyers Google you before they call. We make sure you are the obvious answer in either language.
04
Kanata tech B2B
SaaS, IT services, cybersecurity, hardware and engineering firms across Kanata North. Buyers find you through long-tail English queries and AI search. We rank you for both, plus the senior B2B niches that pay.
05
Orleans & Gatineau bilingual retail
Bilingual neighborhood retail, family services and trades on the eastern side of the river. Listings across Ottawa-region directories with French and English coverage built in.
06
Federal-services-adjacent consulting & B2B
Professional-services contractors, training and compliance vendors, IT and consulting firms selling into the federal buyer pool. We map the searches those buyers run and build the pages those searches expect.
— FAQ

What Ottawa operators ask on the call.

If a question is not answered here, ask on the discovery call. We will tell you the truth, even if it disqualifies us.

How is Ottawa SEO different from Toronto or Montreal?

Ottawa is an officially bilingual capital with a buyer mix that tilts toward federal-services-adjacent B2B, professional services, a deep tech cluster in Kanata North, and a hospitality core anchored by ByWard Market and downtown. Search results split between English and French on commercial queries, the federal calendar shapes demand cycles, and the suburbs (Kanata, Orleans, Nepean, Barrhaven) each behave like their own local market. A generic Toronto playbook misses every one of those.

Do I need to be bilingual to benefit from Ottawa SEO?

No. Plenty of Ottawa businesses serve a primarily English-speaking buyer pool and rank well in English. Bilingual coverage is the additional surface area available in this market that is not available in Toronto or Vancouver. If your buyers search in French, you leave demand on the table by ignoring it. On the discovery call we look at your actual query mix and recommend the right level of French coverage.

Do you offer French SEO content?

Yes. French content is written by native French copy, not run through a translator. We map French queries separately, build the language version each query expects, set up bilingual language signals, and structure the site so Google serves the right page in the right language.

Do you work with federal-services or government-adjacent businesses?

Yes. Many Ottawa B2B businesses sell into federal-services-adjacent buyer pools: professional services contractors, IT and consulting firms, training and compliance vendors. We approach these like any other SEO engagement: map the searches your buyer actually runs, build the pages those searches expect, and treat AI search as part of the same surface. We do not pursue federal procurement work or any work requiring security clearance.

Do you optimize for Google Maps in Ottawa?

Yes. The Google Maps results is where most local Ottawa searches end. We rebuild the Google Business Profile, set the right primary category, language and service areas, line up citation listings across Canadian and Ottawa-region directories, and put a review system in place that earns the new reviews Google looks for to lift you on Google Maps.

Does AI search visibility work for Ottawa businesses?

Yes. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini and Copilot are increasingly where Ottawa buyers ask for a recommendation, in either language. The engines pull from a different set of sources than classic Google rankings. We feed those sources so when a capital-region buyer asks an AI for the best business in your category, your name lands in the answer.

What if my business is in Kanata, Orleans, Nepean or Barrhaven?

Each Ottawa suburb behaves like its own local market in search. Kanata is heavily tech and B2B. Orleans skews bilingual and family-oriented. Nepean and Barrhaven are residential service-heavy. We build separate location signals so a Kanata business shows for Kanata searches and an Orleans business shows for Orleans searches, instead of all of them losing to downtown competitors.

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